From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Oct 3 13:01:42 2007 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.freebsd.org (mx1.freebsd.org [IPv6:2001:4f8:fff6::34]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 32C4716A417 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:01:42 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from igloo.linux.gr (igloo.linux.gr [62.1.205.36]) by mx1.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 992E313C461 for ; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 13:01:40 +0000 (UTC) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: from kobe.laptop (vader.bytemobile.ondsl.gr [83.235.244.135]) (authenticated bits=128) by igloo.linux.gr (8.14.1/8.14.1/Debian-9) with ESMTP id l93D0s78006023 (version=TLSv1/SSLv3 cipher=DHE-RSA-AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT); Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:01:16 +0300 Received: from kobe.laptop (kobe.laptop [127.0.0.1]) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1) with ESMTP id l93D0ZI3004076; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:00:51 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Received: (from keramida@localhost) by kobe.laptop (8.14.1/8.14.1/Submit) id l93D0Xmi004075; Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:00:33 +0300 (EEST) (envelope-from keramida@ceid.upatras.gr) Date: Wed, 3 Oct 2007 16:00:32 +0300 From: Giorgos Keramidas To: jekillen Message-ID: <20071003130032.GA4014@kobe.laptop> References: <33ab8f5a4dac86879f81a1c39d757b08@prodigy.net> <4701B3D3.5050505@gracenpeace.net> <7d01f02b6ddc1b1ff9c710db3f699dbd@prodigy.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <7d01f02b6ddc1b1ff9c710db3f699dbd@prodigy.net> X-Hellug-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-Hellug-MailScanner-SpamCheck: not spam, SpamAssassin (not cached, score=-3.976, required 5, autolearn=not spam, ALL_TRUSTED -1.80, AWL 0.42, BAYES_00 -2.60) X-Hellug-MailScanner-From: keramida@ceid.upatras.gr X-Spam-Status: No Cc: FreeBSD Mailing List , Joe in MPLS Subject: Re: question about Postfix X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.5 Precedence: list List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 03 Oct 2007 13:01:42 -0000 On 2007-10-02 16:12, jekillen wrote: > On Oct 1, 2007, at 7:58 PM, Joe in MPLS wrote: >> The package install of postfix does nothing to sendmail. It's not >> like the MTA switch utility found in some linux distros. Just turn >> off the various bits of sendmail in /etc/rc.conf and start postfix. >> >> Postfix does include an executable named "sendmail" that directly >> replaces some of the "old" sendmail capability. > > This is what is confusing me some. I have a text from SAMS on Postfix > and it talks about renaming several sendmail related files and > removing the suid permissions on them. That book is out of date -- at least as far as FreeBSD is concerned. We don't rename stuff in FreeBSD, because we have mailwrapper(8) :)